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On June 21, 1974, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity issued his finding that Boston’s schools were segregated by the actions of the Boston School Committee. He ordered busing as a remedy beginning that September. There was fierce opposition to the ruling among many whites in Boston while Black families and children acted with courage that fall when rocks pelted their buses on
Stan McLaren, a longtime Dorchester resident and community health center leader, is the new president of Carney Hospital. He comes to the role after nearly four years as the president and CEO at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Blue Hill Avenue. He started his duties at the Dorchester Avenue campus on Monday. McLaren has served since 2018 on the board at the
By Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist May 13, 2021 Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist One of my rediscovered pleasures following vaccination is going into bookstores. A few weeks ago, I picked up Patrick Radden Keefe’s book “Say Nothing,” which is about “the Troubles,” the longtime conflict that turned violent in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and lasted about 30 years. Keefe, who was raised in the Ashmont section of Dorchester, is a writer for The New Yorker magazine, and has published four interesting, award-winning books. He is an excellent writer, whose portrayal of “the Trou...
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff May 6, 2021 Dorchester resident Kafi Dixon is one of the subjects featured in "A Reckoning in Boston." “A Reckoning in Boston,” a new documentary film that focuses on two Dorchester residents enrolled in a night course at Codman Square Health Center, will make its debut at the Independent Film Festival of Boston today (Thurs., May 6). Director James Rutenbeck initially expected to make a film about the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free educational experience offered in Codman Square for adults facing economic hardship and adverse circumstances. ...
By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent May 6, 2021 Gail Latimore Since the first uncertain weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) has continued to offer desperately needed services to Dorchester residents even as its physical office remained closed. Tracing its roots to local activism in the 1970s and 1980s, the non-profit has worked to promote affordable housing, homeownership, equitable transit options, and economic development in Codman Square for more than 40 years. The pandemic only added to the group’s already monumental workloa...